Word: bedpans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blitzkrieg. Now & then, as on Christmas Eve, his gushing soul drips treacle; but the real Whiteside, from his wheelchair throne, commandeers the house, forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to smash his secretary's love affair, bewitches the servants, bedevils his nurse. Snaps he to "Miss Bedpan": "My great-aunt Jennifer . . . lived to be 102 and when she was three days dead she looked better than you do now." But the last word is hers: "If Florence Nightingale had nursed you, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross...
...have already acquainted the cinema public with the notion that a pretty girl in a nurse's uniform can be counted on to perform superhuman feats of courage, loyalty, good humor, devotion to duty and dexterity with any item of hospital apparatus from an ether mask to a bedpan...